gridlocked

Definitions

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v. Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.

adj. Stationary in a gridlock

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Examples

But since then Csikszentmihalyi’s theory seems to have lost traction, so I was intrigued to hear my Turkish friend (in gridlocked traffic that was the antithesis of flow!) update me on a couple of recent studies (copies of which he subsequently sent me) that have rehabilitated the notion of flow.

Meanwhile, Republican Sunder Ramani has run a Scott Brown style campaign: energizing the Republican base while appealing to Democratic and Decline to State voters as a "non partisan" problem solver who can reach across party lines to solve problems in "gridlocked" Sacramento.

That, and about $2.50 will get you a fair cup of coffee in a greasy spoon restaurant, and nothing more, so long as the GOP thinks "gridlocked" is the only kind of congress in which they care to partake.

At the moment, the agency and Iran are - in the words of a senior official - "gridlocked" over Tehran's refusal to provide proof that it was not involved in studies to make a nuclear warhead, as a wide range of intelligence suggests it was.

The continued faith in a conservative American Dream also may have an impact on the larger debates that have gridlocked government over whether to respond to the recession with less or more government intervention to revive the economy and meet the needs of struggling Americans.